A Life Painted in Memory: The World of Alex Katz Alex Katz (1927-2013) wasn’t a painter who sought to capture the world as it *is*, but rather as it *feels*. His canvases, often dominated by seemingly simple scenes – a couple sitting on a porch, a woman in a fur coat, a solitary figure walking down a street – are imbued with an unsettling stillness, a quiet intensity that draws the viewer into a realm of memory and emotion. Born in…